tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post659100185225461228..comments2024-03-29T11:26:16.652-04:00Comments on Fayfare's Opry Blog: Wilma Lee Cooper Passes at Age 90fayfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00173166778978335059noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-58236532616337788382011-09-26T20:11:00.467-04:002011-09-26T20:11:00.467-04:00It would be nice, but I just don't think it is...It would be nice, but I just don't think it is going to happen. The finalist in the veterans category last year, that will probably get strong consideration this year were the Wilburn Brothers, Archie Campbell, The Browns, Elton Britt and Cowboy Copas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-80053759515867347072011-09-24T20:48:22.493-04:002011-09-24T20:48:22.493-04:00I hope Wilma Lee & Stony gets in the hall of f...I hope Wilma Lee & Stony gets in the hall of fame in 2012johnnynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-18683470443573147492011-09-19T07:02:09.601-04:002011-09-19T07:02:09.601-04:00Fred again:
Knowing nothing of the circumstances,...Fred again:<br /><br />Knowing nothing of the circumstances, myself, but as one who has been through the decline and relocation of two parents, with the final stop being the nursing home in both cases, I would be inclined to cut Carol Lee some slack.<br /><br />There is little to do when an old impaired parent is forced to relocate to an apartment or nursing home but for someone to find another home for most of their things ... that, or back up the truck.<br /><br />I'm sure Wilma Lee had many wonderful keepsakes, most of which would not fit into the Nashville apartment -- at Opryland? -- she had for several years before it was nursing-home time. One certainly hopes Carol Lee took over and protected these.<br /><br />I do retain a nice mental picture of Wilma Lee and Carol Lee from one of the former's later appearances on the TNN Opry. Wilma Lee was a little shaky at this point; and, at one of those group sings, where everybody is onstage at the same time, one camera angle showed Carol Lee holding W.L.'s hand behind their backs. This I took as a sign of daughterly solicitude and support.<br /><br />Again, though, Anonymous, I just don't know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-32804162145497847282011-09-19T00:33:11.830-04:002011-09-19T00:33:11.830-04:00Wilma Lee deserved a service at the Ryman but inst...Wilma Lee deserved a service at the Ryman but instead she will probably quietly be forgotten. I get the idea that Carol Lee wasn't too interested in her during her last years and I'm basing that on a letter I got from Wilma Lee not long after she had her stroke where she mentioned that Carol Lee took many of her things. If that's true, it's a terrible shame for a woman who was once of the nicest and most geninue people I ever met in Country Music. At least now she is at rest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-77733246221876473162011-09-17T08:33:50.793-04:002011-09-17T08:33:50.793-04:00Fred again:
Yes, indeed, the Coopers are long ove...Fred again:<br /><br />Yes, indeed, the Coopers are long overdue for the Hall, an institution I would blow up if I could -- speaking only figuratively here, Homeland Security -- and do all over again.<br /><br />One valuable "due" the Coopers did get: The Bear Family box-set treatment, a treasure that every Coopers lover owes himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-91679257259890639632011-09-17T06:39:53.587-04:002011-09-17T06:39:53.587-04:00I agree 100% and had hoped for years that the Hall...I agree 100% and had hoped for years that the Hall of Fame would induct Wilma Lee and Stoney before it was too late but alas another opportunity for them to do the right thing has forever been lost. As the words of a famous Cooper song go..."useless the flowers that you give after the soul is gone."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-87209571944770204092011-09-16T19:58:48.763-04:002011-09-16T19:58:48.763-04:00I know that we talk about the artists who should b...I know that we talk about the artists who should be in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper should definitely be in the Hall of Fame. I know that they have been finalists in the past, but I do not know if they have been close to getting elected in recent years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-83520466183752732052011-09-16T18:10:34.424-04:002011-09-16T18:10:34.424-04:00I loved her version of "A Daisy a Day." ...I loved her version of "A Daisy a Day." I also have to chuckle. I loved Stoney--a great singer and entertainer. But I never saw anybody other than Mr. Acuff hold a fiddle more and play it less!Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998867386294693956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-51088243034959425372011-09-16T18:05:19.130-04:002011-09-16T18:05:19.130-04:00Fred in Bismarck here:
Thank you for giving us th...Fred in Bismarck here:<br /><br />Thank you for giving us the news, Byron. And Michael is right on. I met the Coopers at a show in your neck of the woods, Byron, in 1959 or '60, when they were at the top of their game. A more friendly and gracious couple of people to a starstruck teenager you never saw in your life.<br /><br />After 50 years Wilma Lee's performance of "Rachel's Guitar" still raises the hair on the back of my neck. Their incredible album, "Family Favorites," from the early 1960s, is on my Top 10-of-All-Time list.<br /><br />In his prime, Stoney was no mean vocalist himself. On "Sunny Side of the Mountain" he bugles like a big old bull elk.<br /><br />Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper -- country music at its very finest. Nice to think of them making music together again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-67316257844677590432011-09-16T16:49:31.210-04:002011-09-16T16:49:31.210-04:00When they talk about GRAND ladies ... of the Grand...When they talk about GRAND ladies ... of the Grand Ole Opry or anywhere else in music, she is, was, and will be one of them.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998867386294693956noreply@blogger.com